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The notion of micropayments — a pay-per-click/download web model — is hardly a new one . But as a business model it hasn’t exactly caught fire, or even generated more than an occasional spark. Lately, however, the journalism community has become obsessed with the idea. This is what happens when an existing business model begins to collapse: alternative models are desperately invented, debated, attempted, rejected, etc. In recent days we’ve seen Walter Isaacson , the biographer/pundit who used to edit TIME , write a TIME cover story in support of micropayments; in a Times Op-Ed, Michael Kinsley begged to differ ; a not-quite-micropayment system for blogs, meanwhile, called Kachingle , will launch next month.
What Would Micropayments Do for Journalism? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Help Wanted: When layoffs hit home Video - cleveland.com
Posted: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 11:18 PM Over the past two months, The Plain Dealer and online partner cleveland.com began a massive effort to interview, photograph and video 88 Northeast Ohioans whose jobs were swallowed by the cratering economy. Today we launch the first of what will become many installments over the coming months of a multimedia project chronicling their trials and their joys.
Voices From The Recession (washingtonpost.com)
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Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discrimination as well as personal choices within occupations are two major factors, and part of the gap can be attributed to men having more years of experience and logging more hours.
Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
The hardest-hit parts of the country have been manufacturing regions, like Michigan, Ohio and Rhode Island, and areas that had huge housing bubbles, like California, Florida and Nevada. (Updated August 10, 2010 with June data. Figures are not seasonally adjusted.)
The Geography of a Recession - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker
It is spring in McAllen, Texas. The morning sun is warm. The streets are lined with palm trees and pickup trucks. McAllen is in Hidalgo County, which has the lowest household income in the country, but it’s a border town, and a thriving foreign-trade zone has kept the unemployment rate below ten per cent.
The 2009 Statistical Abstract
What is the Statistical Abstract? The Statistical Abstract of the United States , published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. The U.S.A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard. As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than forty hours a week; when he wasn’t on the job, he had classes. Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he couldn’t finish during the day, and weekend nights were spent drinking with friends and going to dance parties. “Trite as it sounds,” he told me, it seemed important to “maybe appreciate my own youth.” Since, in essence, this life was impossible, Alex began taking Adderall to make it possible.
The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs : The New Yorker
Over here at Style Section L.A., we’re pretty voracious readers. Some may call us nerdy; we like to think of ourselves as merely inquisitive. And as part of our never-ending quest to know as many useless facts about random subjects as possible, we try to find little lessons in everything that...
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Just a year and a half ago, Baltimore-area media people were singing the praises of the Examiner, the free daily launched in 2006 to compete with the Baltimore Sun. The paper had gained a number of local and national retail advertisers and was eager to negotiate with buyers on everything from ad format to ad placement. Now, the Examiner is gone, or just about to be, another apparent victim of the tanking economy and the uncertain future for newspapers generally, especially free dailies.
Media Life Magazine - Baltimore's free Examiner calls it quits
New Haven Independent :: It's Your Town. Read All About It.
A one-time teenaged factory “trucker washer” who succeeded in business has returned to Winchester Avenue to help other New Haven kids follow in his footsteps—and to help out-of-work adults get jobs drawing blood. Thanks to a real estate appraiser’s number-crunching—blasted as fishy by New Haven’s leading prosecutor—a judge agreed to spring developer Angelo Reyes from jail as he awaits trial in seven arson cases in state and federal courts. (Updated) Forty minutes after they began dismantling New England’s longest-standing “Occupy Wall Street” encampment, police and public-works crews officially halted the eviction as word spread of a last-minute federal court order. As the city prepares to dismantle Occupy New Haven on the upper Green at high noon Tuesday, three key organizers have decamped to an undisclosed location—to begin dismantling capitalism from the ground up.What Participatory Assessment is NOT
Obviously a blog devoted to participatory assessment should explain what that means. And try to do so in simple every day terms. This is the first in a series of posts that attempts to do so. Quite specifically, participatory assessment is first about assessing and improving a communities social participation knowledgeable activity, with the added bonus of fostering the understanding and achievement of the individuals in that community."Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave.